Massive stone boxes in the Serapeum of Saqqara show signs of mind-boggling precision machining, suggesting that ancient ...

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

The discovery suggests ancient communities continued hunting and gathering practices from 8000 BC through the 18th century. Dr. Adrián Oyaneder from the University of Exeter used publicly available ...

Among the billions of stars that populate the cosmos, some retain the chemical signature of ancient times, long before heavy ...

More than two decades after it was first discovered, a mysterious ‘underwater city’ off the coast of Cuba is back in the ...

Near the Fanshan king's mausoleum, where the largest jade cong of the ­Liangzhu Culture, a testimony to the existence of ...

Inspired by ancient Roman concrete techniques, a team led by Prof. Ma Xiao from the University of Science and Technology of ...

Egyptologist Armando Mei has shared his stunning discoveries beneath Egypt's Giza pyramids, hidden passages that may lead to ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Scientists found unusual sulfur in moon samples from Apollo 17. The discovery reveals new clues about the Moon’s ancient ...